Those that have extra hardware available are urged to install -current as this is the time to put it to real-world usage. Problems identified now may possibly be fixed before the official release in November.

Given the lead time needed to mass produce the official CD sets, CVS tagging for 4.8 will likely be sometime in August-September depending upon problems encountered, goals of refining (exposed) functionality, etc. Past experience indicates that Labor Day is a reasonable guess.

As should be noted, support in wscons(4) isn't really possible.. not for much of the extended characters in unicode, they simply can't be displayed with the default VGA fonts, so you'll need X and a UTF8 compatible terminal (xterm/etc) to actually play around with the fancy stuff.

It's not an easy thing to get right, Unix never really was designed to take advantage of "funny" characters.. it's an ASCII world with some kludges, and personally that's why I love it.